Rate Best A&A versions and why

@Mazer:

Hey LT04.

Close, but there is one odd exception: if your capital falls (say Moscow to Japan) and you take another capital (say Berlin to Russia) then Russia gets the money from the Germans and can spend it the next turn.

Very minor point, but I just wanted to note the oddity.  You can’t collect income in the collect income phase, but you can collect someone else’s income  :-D

Peace

@Krieghund:

Actually, in that case you do get the IPCs, but you can’t spend them until your capital is liberated.

Well you learn something new every day.  :-)

LT

I also think that War at Sea is considered seperate from the land minis. If you are going chronologicaly I think Revised would be before D-Day and minis before BOTB.

i love the game whether winning or “not winning”  :-)

crappy dice are definitely part of the game.

@Jennifer:

@Infantry:

Now that you can target tech rolls IT would distort the game. Too much would rely on whether Germany or Russia got IT first.

Well, if they had left it in and not altered Hvy Bombers except to limit then to best of 3 dice on SBR runs, it would have evened out.

I think the reference was to the tech that allowed you to save 1 IPC per unit.

Spend 20 IPC on tech, get a slightly better than 50% chance.

Now you need to buy 20 units to make that back.  20 infantry now cost you 40 IPC.

Simple.

I think using movement limitations and a limit of 10 is a good variant. As for piling everyone in West Russia, yes, that could happen, but then Russia could pile everything in the capitol and hold you off, then all of your other territories are free for UK. It’s very easy to try and win in one round by sending everyone after a capitol like that, and inevitably it’s what everyone did the first time we played that way, but then you learn pretty quick that people are going to second-guess that strategy and you’ve got to cover your ass on all sides. In the end, people end up going with more realistic, and ultimately more enjoyable, starting troop placements.

Hi,

I’ve been on the hunt for some additional/alternative miniatures for using with A&AR.

So far I’ve found Infantry miniatures from Airfix (www.airfix.com) for US, UK, Germany and Russia.

In regard to Tanks, Fighters, Artillery and Bombers, I’ve had no luck at the scale in A&AR, and the same goes for naval units.

Anybody else have any leads I might follow up?

EDIT: I’ve come to the conclusion that tanks, planes and artillery are in the approx 1:285 scale, while infantry are approx 1:72 scale.
I’ve found that the company called Micro Armour produces (produced more like it) tanks and such.
Micro Armour miniatures can be found here: http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/ghq-military-models.html
Although, it seems they’re an expensive alternative, the models would bring even greater realism/diversity to the gamingboard.

For those of you that wants to play Axis & Allies Revised over the internet, the easiest way to find opponents is to sign up at

http://tripleawarclub.org/

The games are played using triplea, which can be downloaded at

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/